Is the United Nations merely a “toothless” institution that repeatedly fails its mandate, or was it built from the ground up to protect imperial power and preserve global inequality?
From its founding in 1945 during the height of colonial rule to its historical and present actions in Southern Africa, the Congo, Rwanda, and Palestine, the UN’s structure continues to shield the powerful while placing the burden of accountability on the powerless.
True sovereignty for the Global South won’t come from begging for a seat at someone else’s table; it requires building independent, self-reliant institutions.
Zimbabwe Has Paid $508 Million To White Farmers For The Land It Took Back From Them
In 2000, Robert Mugabe, founding father, liberation leader and then President of Zimbabwe, implemented a historic land reform. This reform, called the Land Acquisition Act, aimed to address the injustices of Zimbabwe’s colonial era by returning the country’s arable land back to its rightful owners.
Today, Zimbabwe’s current leadership is moving to pay over $3 billion to the white descendants of its former oppressors, as “compensation” for the loss of “their” land.
Years of crippling Western sanctions and a weak-willed government have led Zimbabwe to its current humiliation.
Meanwhile, the West continues to shut down any and all discussion of paying reparations to Africa for its over 500-year reign of terror on the continent.
CNN Journalist Amanpour’s “Typo” On X Reveals Continued Western Media Bias Towards Africa
For decades, Africa has had to put up with the disrespect of being viewed by the West and its media as a single, monolithic entity, rather than a rich, diverse continent of 55 nations and over 3000 distinct ethnic groups.
In a now-deleted post on X, renowned CNN “journalist” Christiane Amanpour [ include (@amanpour) for X OR (@camanpour) for Instagram & Facebook ] commented on the September 29 coronation of Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, the 13th monarch of Tooro Kingdom in Uganda.
Except, according to the post in question, this coronation happened in Nigeria.
Was Amanpour – a veteran journalist with over 4 decades of experience – somehow unable to do a simple, 2-minute Google search before posting this blunder? Or was the continent she was commenting on just not worth the trouble for her?
This latest “reporting error” by one of the West’s media parrots is a stark reminder to Africans that outside the shores of our continent, we are not seen as “Ugandans”, “Nigerians”, “Congolese”, “Sudanese”, or any of the myriad ethnic identities in between.
We are seen and treated by these outsiders as one entity, yet we ourselves continue to let these divisions get in the way of our own collective progress.
Africa’s continued division only helps the West. It does not help Africans.
Kwame Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, Thomas Sankara and other great Pan-Africanist visionaries dreamed of a United States of Africa. They dreamed of a truly unified, truly sovereign, and truly powerful Africa, enriched by its boundless natural resources and human capital.
That dream is what we must fight for.
Ibrahim Traoré: Some Africans Still Suffer Colonial Stockholm Syndrome
During his now-famous July 16 public address in the city of Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré had a few choice words for Africans who have allowed themselves to become the poodles of those who have victimised them for over 500 years.
Traoré’s message to Africans is simple - freedom in this world is only taken and never given willingly, and if we want to live full, free lives and bequeath a free, prosperous continent to our children, we must learn to resist and suffer for the sake of freedom, instead of lying down obediently and suffering anyway.
Do you agree with Traoré’s message? Let us know in the comments.
Kwame Nkrumah’s Brutal Letter To One Of His Western-Backed Successors Holds Lessons For Africans Today
In 1972, Ghana’s second civilian leader, Kofi Busia, was ousted in a military coup. Following this coup, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President and founding father, who had himself been ousted in a coup 6 years earlier, wrote a scathing letter to Busia.
This letter, and the reasons behind it, hold an important lesson for Africans today.
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